Will Investment in Orlando pay off for Lockheed Martin Stock?



The Lockheed Martin Corporation is a US based multinational company, which operates in the areas of defense, security, aerospace and advanced technologies. The company has worldwide interests and is one of the world’s largest defense contractors in providing the defense products to the customers. Lockheed Martin was established as a result of a merger of two big contracting firms in 1995. The company after the merger is headquartered in the Washington, United States.  Lockheed Martin is traded on New York Stock Exchange and the symbol for Lockheed Martin Stock is LMT. The Lockheed Martin Stock price is currently at over $161 and the company has the market capitalization of over $51 Billion.  The company’s main stream of revenues is from its government defense contracts and trainings for the defense technologies. The company recently announced that it is going to add another $80 million capital investment in the Orlando mission systems and training units. The expansion in the Orlando unit is directed towards the trainings, mission control and the preparation supporting techniques for the F-series (i.e. F-16, F-35) aircrafts. The management is very forward looking to this advancement as well as the investors of the company since this unit of the corporation brings in over $4 Billion in revenue from different contracts and the expansion and advancement spending in this area would certainly benefit the bottom line of the company. United Technologies stock is also a prominent company engaged in aircraft manufacturing.

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